- Date
- June 13, 2007
- Venue
-
Debaser
Stockholm, Sweden
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3
- Gig Type
- Concert
From Jonathan M on the Fegmaniax mailing list.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007
Subject: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13
Hello, friends and not-yet-friends!
Four or so years since I left the list, I'm just sneaking in quickly to hand you a setlist from yesterday's show at Debaser Slussen, Stockholm. Nice gig, though partly marred by inferior sound quality. Lots of feedback and RH:s voice often drowned in the mix. Apparently his vocals were barely audible in the monitor, which made the whole group a bit frustrated.
Setlist:
RH solo:
1. I often dream of trains
Enter band:
2. Vibrating ("a song about the origin of pleasure")
3. "The intro to the song we're not going to play" (instrumental, a couple of bars while Scott got out to fetch something)
4. The Underneath ("written the day after Lady Di got shot")
5. If you were a priest
6. N.Y. Doll
7. Saturday groovers (Is this a new tune? Very stompy thing about people refusing to realise they're growing old.)
8. The Afterlight
9. A song I didn't recognize, beginning with something like "There's a thin line between being well and being ill". The phrase "Take it away, Take it away" constituted some kind of chorus.
10. Balloon man (introduced with a long monologue about snakes eating goats, and goats eating snakes)
11. Another one I didn't recognize, with a chorus that went: "It doesn't matter what you was, It's what you is and what you is is what you are". Apparently they hadn't planned to play it at first. Robyn
said: "This is an extra song, instead of having a cigarette".
12. Somewhere apart
13. Brenda's iron sledge
14. The Authority Box
15. Jewels for Sophia ("Some people say Candle in the wind is the most beautiful song ever written. This one runs a truck across Candle in the wind and snaps its fucking neck")
16. 40,000 headmen (After some conversation, with audience and with Scott, about God being everywhere, and everywhere thus being God, and that this thing-that-is-everywhere might just as well be called "traffic", though not Steve Winwood's Traffic, Robyn suddenly starts playing this old Traffic song. At first it seems he's planning to play just the first verse, but then he continues and the rest of the band follows, playing the entire song. Wonderful!)
17. A man's gotta know his limitations, Briggs
Encore:
RH solo:
18. Raining twilight coast
Enter band:
19. City of shame (audience request)
20. Adventure rocket ship
21.Kingdom of love